JoAnn Buscaglia began her career in biometrics through forensic science research and development. In the early 2000s, she served as a research chemist in the FBI’s Laboratory Counterterrorism and Forensic Science Research Unit. While there, she assisted with latent fingerprint research to develop quantitative measurements and assess the scientific basis of identification conclusions in order to address court admissibility challenges to the discipline.

Tovah LaDier, managing director at the International Biometrics Identity Association, was new to biometrics more than a decade ago. But in the time she’s seen the market evolcve and change and has helped educate and inform politicians the public about biometrics.

HID Global announced a secure citizen ID card; Precise Biometrics entered into a commercial software license and distribution agreement with Samsung’s System LSI Business; Evolis will unveil its new solutions for financial and government markets during Trustech-Cartes 2016.

Teresa Wu, director of Strategic Marketing and Government Relations at MorphoTrak, has spent her entire 15-year professional career in biometrics. Starting out as an intern and working her way she has seen the industry grow and evolve in the past decade plus.

It’s difficult to remember a technology that has been more heavily hyped than blockchain. More than $1 billion has already been invested in startups and established companies working with distributed ledger technologies. Identity and blockchain are receiving a lot attention as some think the technology can solve many of the digital identity woes.

A primer on blockchain and bitcoin and how the distributed ledger technology may impact digital identity systems. Blockchain’s distributed ledger system is used to keep track of Bitcoin transactions and eliminates the need for central authorities and enables each user of the system to maintain their own copy of the ledger.

The first of four winners of the 2016 Women in Biometrics: Elham Tabassi. Tabassi is an electrical engineer at the National Institute of Standards and Technology and has helped create a system that checks the quality of fingerprints as they are captured.

Michelle Meder’s career in biometrics began in her hometown of Clarksburg, W.V. when she was hired by the FBI in 1994. She quickly moved from mail and file clerk to fingerprint examiner. She’s now a supervisory management and program analyst in the FBI’s Latent and Forensic Support Unit, managing the Next Generation Identification System’s automated latent investigative services.

Advanced card materials are often thought of being used in large, highly-secure central issuance environments. But these card materials are equally suited for use in local issuance using desktop printers.

Ping Identity announced the availability of a customer identity and access management platform; AMAG Technology announced EyeLock LLC as its newest certified partner; Suprema, entered into partnership with Egis Technology Inc.